American Sign Language

American Sign Language

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American Sign Language

a language consisting of manual signs and gestures, used as by deaf people in North America

American Sign Language

noun

Abbr. ASL

The primary sign language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people in the United States and Canada, devised in part by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet on the basis of sign language in France. Also called Ameslan .